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Re: should index be empty in makeinfo docbook/xml output?


From: Torsten Bronger
Subject: Re: should index be empty in makeinfo docbook/xml output?
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:37:56 +0200
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Hallöchen!

Per Bothner <address@hidden> writes:

> [...]
>
> I would argue that what makeinfo is current doing is wrong.  It should
> do one of two:
> (1) *really* generate the index, which means making the index entries
> be links to their definition, which would need id entries.
> (2) have whoever makes use of the docbook be responsible for the index.
>
> I think (2) makes more sense - for generating both 'docbook' and 'xml'.

For XML this is the case.  makeinfo only inserts index elements into
the output, but it doesn't do the actual indexing work.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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